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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 20: (search)
colony: he heard it unmoved. Heaven and man seemed his enemies; and, with the giant energy of an indomitable will, having lost his hopes of fortune, his hopes of fame,— with his colony diminished to about forty, among whom discontent—had given birth to plans of crime,— with no Europeans nearer than the River Panuco, no French nearer than Illinois,--he resolved to travel on foot to his countrymen at the north, and return from Canada to renew his colony in Texas. Leaving twenty men at Fort St. Louis, in January, 1687 Jan. 12. 1687, La Salle, with sixteen men, departed for Canada. Lading their baggage on the wild horses from the Cenis, which found their pasture every where in tile prairies; in shoes made of green buffalo hides; for want of other paths, following the track of the buffalo, and using skins as the only shelter against rain; winning favor with the savages by the confiding courage of their leader;—they ascended the streams towards the first ridge of highlands, walking
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXI (search)
om Lower Canada. Two numerous Indian villages gathered near the fort; here were, at last, the wigwams of the Hurons, who, from their old country, had fled first to the Falls of St. Mary, and then to Mackinaw; and above, on the right, in Upper Canada, rose a settlement of the Ottawas, their inseparable companions. The military occupation of Illinois seems to have continued, without interruption, from the time when 1681 La Salle returned from Fort Frontenac. Joutel found a garrison at Fort St. Louis in 1687; in 1689, La Hontan bears testimony that it still continued; in 1696, a public document proves its existence, and the wish of Louis XIV. to preserve it in good condition; and when, in 1700, Tonti again descended the Missis- 1700 sippi, he was attended by twenty Canadian residents in Illinois. The oldest permanent European settlement in the valley of the Mississippi, is the village of the Immaculate Conception of the Holy Virgin, or Kaskaskia, the seat of a Jesuit mission, wh
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., C. (search)
183. Parties in, III. 13. Constitution abrogated, 15. Huguenots enfranchised, 17. High Church faction, 18. Produce of, 20. Expedition against St. Augustine, 209. Attacked by the French, 211. Popular revolution, 328. War with the Yamassees, 326. Caron, Le, III. 118. Cartier, his voyage, I. 19. At MontReal, 21. Carteret, Philip, II. 317. Carver, John, I. 310. Catawbas, III. 245. Cayugas, II. 417. Champlain in Canada, I. 25. Explores Lake Champlain, 28. Builds Fort St. Louis, 29. Establishes missions, III. 121. Charles I., I. 194. Convenes a parliament, II. 2. Trial, 15. Charles II., his restoration, II. 29. Character, 48. Charleston founded, II. 169. Chauvin obtains a patent, I. 25. Chaumonot, Father, II. 144. Cherokees, III. 246. Treaty with, 332. Cheesman, Edmund, II. 230. Chickasas, Soto amongst, I. 49. Their residence, III. 160, 249. French wars with, 365. Visit Oglethorpe, 433. Chippewas, II. 150. Clarendon, minist